This recorder solo, with optional tubular bells accompaniment, is headed by a line from an ode by Klopstock, also quoted in his diary by the poet Hölderlin: 'Death, our saviour, ... softly approaches in clouds of sleep'.

Uraufführung : 6. Februar 1999 Basel, Leonhardskirche (CH) · Felix Renggli, Altflöte; Matthias Würsch, Tempelglocken